Using iperf on Android

I have been working with the networks analysis of Android devices for some time now. As many of you know, IPerf is a great utility to characterize the network bandwidth and packet loss on devices.

On Android too, there are quite a few tools that you could use to benchmark your network and your device. IPerf is certainly one of them. It was build by NLANR / DAST (I couldn’t trace back to this organizations website though) and is available for download here :

3 responses to “Using iperf on Android”

> That means you have to get both your device under the same subnet and also ensure that there is at max 1 hop.
Neither of these statements are true. As long as any intervening firewalls are properly configured, iperf2 behaves just like every other unicast TCP or UDP server or client software. I’ve never used iperf3, but I cannot imagine that anything substantial changed in that regard.